Markus Miessen is a German, London-based architect, researcher, educator, and writer. Co-director of Miessen&Ploughfields and director of the Architectural Association Winter School Middle East, Miessen has advised the European Kunsthalle and the think tank Demos, and lectured widely including at Columbia, MIT, The Royal College of Art, the Istanbul Biennial, and Centro Cultural Tijuana.
As a writer, Miessen has contributed, edited and advised globally, with regular articles in more than 30 international titles, from academic to scientific to popular culture. He is the editor of The Violence of Participation (Sternberg Press, 2007), co-editor of With/Without – Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East (Bidoun, 2007) and Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice (MIT Press/ Revolver, 2006), and co-author of Spaces of Uncertainty (Müller+Busmann, 2002). Miessen&Ploughfields are currently working on a high-alpine cultural complex in Switzerland that includes an artist-in-residence program and the private library of Hans Ulrich Obrist.
At DLD08, he created an interpretation of an installation titled The Violence of Participation, which was on show at the 2007 Lyon Biennial, continuing his ongoing research about democratic paradoxes and spatial perceptions of Europe.
Attendance at the conference is by invitation only. DLD is produced by Hubert Burda Media.
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